2012 Challenges



150+ Reading Challenge

Read to date: 109/150
  • Palladian - Elizabeth Taylor
  • The Book Shop - Penelope Fitzgerald 
  • The Elephant's Journey - Jose Saramago 
  • Incidents in the Rue Laugier - Anita Brookner 
  • Olivia and Jai - Rebecca Ryman 
  • Reality and Dreams - Muriel Spark 
  • The Ponder Heart - Eudora Welty 
  • The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe 
  • The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes 
  • The Making of a Saint - W. Somerset Maugham 
  • No Fond Return of Love - Barbara Pym 
  • Jane and Prudence - Barbara Pym 
  • Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 
  • Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
  • The End of the Affair - Graham Greene 
  • Symposium - Muriel Spark 
  • This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  • The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  • The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt - Caroline Preston 
  • The Forgotten Waltz - Anne Enright 
  • The Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  • The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield 
  • Leaving Home - Anita Brookner 
  • Christmas Holiday - W. Somerset Maugham 
  • The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham 
  • A Sensible Life - Mary Wesley 
  • Ulysses - James Joyce 
  • The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 
  • Heat Wave - Penelope Lively
  • The Wedding Group - Elizabeth Taylor
  • At Lady Molly's - Anthony Powell
  • Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Anthony Powell
  • The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell 
  • The Children - Edith Wharton 
  • The Reef - Edith Wharton 
  • A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
  • Penmarric - Susan Howatch 
  • The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen 
  • If I Were You - P. G. Wodehouse 
  • The Mother's Recompense - Edith Wharton 
  • Rules of Civility - Amor Towles 
  • On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan 
  • Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati 
  • French Leave - Anna Gavalda 
  • Providence - Anita Brookner 
  • The Grass Harp - Truman Capote 
  • The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell 
  • The Soldier's Art - Anthony Powell 
  • The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell 
  • The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim 
  • Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West 
  • Dawn on a Distant Shore - Sara Donati 
  • The Garden of Eden - Ernest Hemingway 
  • Hemingway's Boat - Paul Hendrickson 
  • Gillespie and I - Jane Harris 
  • Delta Wedding - Eudora Welty 
  • The Beekeeper's Pupil - Sara George 
  • Summer - Edith Wharton 
  • The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell 
  • Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks 
  • Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 
  • On Green Dolphin Street - Sebastian Faulks 
  • Fools of Fortune - William Trevor 
  • The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence 
  • Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence 
  • On the Road - Jack Kerouac 
  • Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen 
  • Atonement - Ian McEwan 
  • Resistance - Anita Shreve 
  • Ordinary Heroes - Scott Turow
  • The Girl in the Blue Beret - Bobbie Ann Mason 
  • The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje 
  • Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  • Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 
  • Every Day in the Sun - Dean Faulkner Wells 
  • Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling 
  • Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
  • Sartoris - William Faulkner 
  • The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner 
  • Wild Decembers - Edna O'Brien 
  • Old School - Tobias Wolff 
  • Amsterdam - Ian McEwan 
  • Deception - Philip Roth 
  • Consequences of the Heart - Peter Cunningham 
  • Elizabeth and Her German Garden - Elizabeth von ARnim 
  • The Girl on the Boat - P. G. Wodehouse
  • The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier 
  • The Old Gray Homestead - Frances Parkinson Keyes 
  • Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier 
  • Snow Island - Katherine Towler 
  • Flambards - K. M. Peyton 
  • The Edge of the Cloud - K. M. Peyton 
  • Flambards in Summer - K. M. Peyton 
  • Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson 
  • Ragnarok - A. S. Byatt 
  • Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O'Brien  
  • A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
  • Fair Stood The Wind For France - H. E. Bates 
  • That Mad Ache - Francoise Sagan 
  • Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger 
  • Train Dreams - Denis Johnson 
  • The Scapegoat - Daphne du Maurier 
  • Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan 
  • Fly Away Peter - David Malouf 
  • Funny Farm - Jay Cronley 
  • The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark 
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery




Tea and Books Reading Challenge

Level: Sencha Connoisseur (8 books)

Frances

Read to date: 4/8
  • Ulysses - James Joyce
  • The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 
  • Penmarric - Susan Howatch 
  • Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati
Rose:

Read to date: 9
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins  
  • Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore 
  • Perdido Street Station - China Mieville 
  • A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
  • A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
  • A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
  • A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
  • The Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber 


The Classics Reading Challenge

Level: Five (15 books)

Read to date: 28/15
  •  Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  • Scoop - Evelyn Waugh 
  • The End of the Affair - Graham Greene 
  • This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  • The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  • The Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  • Christmas Holiday - W. Somerset Maugham 
  • The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham 
  • Ulysses - James Joyce 
  • The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 
  • At Lady Molly's - Anthony Powell
  • Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Anthony Powell
  • The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell 
  • The Children - Edith Wharton 
  • The Reef - Edith Wharton 
  • A Passage to India - E. M. Forster 
  • The Mother's Recompense - Edith Wharton 
  • The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell 
  • The Soldier's Art - Anthony Powell 
  • The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell 
  • The Garden of Eden - Ernest Hemingway 
  • Summer - Edith Wharton 
  • The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence 
  • Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence 
  • Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  • Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence 
  • Sartoris - William Faulkner
  • The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner




Books I Started but Didn't Finish

Read to date: 1
  • Scoop - Evelyn Waugh


Contentment Reading Challenge

Level: Floating Level (5 books)

Read to date: 5/5
  • Penmarric - Susan Howatch
  • Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati 
  • Dawn on a Distant Shore - Sara Donati 
  • Summer - Edith Wharton 
  • Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier


Death by Gaslight Reading Challenge

Level: The Merry Widow of Windy Nook ( 5 books)

Read to date: 3/5
  • The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 
  • The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins


European Reading Challenge

Level: Five Star (5 books)
Read to date: 8/5

  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore
  • Birth of the Kingdom - Jan Guillou
  • Jean de Florette - Marcel Pagnol
  • Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
  • The Traveler - Antal Szerb
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  • Piccadilly Jim - P. G. Wodehouse




Nordic Reading Challenge

Read to date: 2
  • Birth of the Kingdom - Jan Guillou 
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils - Selma Lagerlöf




South Asian Reading Challenge

Read to date: 2

  • Last Man in Tower - Aravind Adiga
  • The Sly Company of People Who Care - Rahul Bhattacharya